Today I am set off by something strange. I am writing this review of graham cracker flavor, by flavor west, for DIY e-liquids. I bought this graham cracker flavor to be used for a crust flavoring, added to things like cheesecake, or other flavors with cheesecake. I am a bit more than surprised that it is pretty good all by itself too. I am almost at a loss for words, but I will do what I can for you.

The batch is made up at 30/70 pg/vg . I used 15% flavor in my 10 mil batch. I know most people make 5 or less mils of liquid when testing, but I plan to use this with other flavors so I needed a good sized test batch. However, since I give the flavor percentage used, you can make your batch how ever you like, with what ever PG/VG ratio that works for you. Just use an e liquid calculator and let it do the math for you.

When you first take a puff of this graham cracker flavor, it goes in pretty smooth, yet it has a full robust flavor at 15%. On the inhale and exhale, you taste the graham cracker flavor and nothing else. Then after vaping on it for a few, I am noticing perhaps a touch of a coconut flavor lingering around? I am still trying to place my finger on it, but that is what it seems. Almost like one of those girl scout cookies… um,, snickerdoodle I think it is. Maybe I am wrong about the name, but it has a coconut like flavor to it.

Anyways, alone, this is a nice vape. I am quite surprised by that, as I did not buy it for a stand alone flavor. The more I vape it, I am not sure if it is just the after taste or not, that is making me feel like I am tasting coconut, but It is really coming off as a nice flavorful vape. It has a lot of vapor, and an extremely mild throat hit even at 18 mg nicotine. Usually I go a lot lower, but I changed a lot of things up for this batch of flavors, and the nic level was one of them.

If you like graham crackers, and coconut, this is a nice one for you. It plays very well with flavors of things that typically use a graham cracker crust on them like the blueberry cheesecake flavor I made up. You will have to play with the flavor ratios yourself, but my first try, I went 5 drops blueberry, 5 drops cheese cake, and 3 drops graham cracker, and it was pretty decent. Not perfect, but decent for sure. It was a good starting point anyways.

So, my over all review of this graham cracker flavor, by flavor west, is good. It is a keeper, and one you should definitely give a try.

This evening, I am trying out some of my flavors I mixed up yesterday from Flavor West. I will review each one, as well as some combinations that have worked real nicely. Most of these flavors, I planned to blend with others to start off, but testing to get the original flavor recipe is an important first step. So, this is my review on the banana flavor, by flavor west.

I mixed this batch of banana flavor at 30 percent PG, and 70 percent VG. I mixed this batch up at 15% flavoring to begin with so I would have a good starting reference point. It seems that most non tobacco flavors from Flavor west are in the 10 to 20 percent area when you are into making your own DIY eliquids. This banana is pretty good at 15 percent. Not too strong, but not what I would call weak, but it has only steeped over night, so no real steeping time yet. It may finish out much stronger, or smoother, or change all together.

The banana flavor to me tastes a lot like banana laffy taffy. If you are not sure what that is,,, it is like a banana syrup flavor that some places that do no know any better, try to put into their shakes and malts, instead of using the real thing. Idiots… Same goes for the fools that use malt syrup instead of powdered malt, but I will try to stay on topic with the banana flavoring, by flavor west, since that is what this review is about.

I am vaping it at 3.5 volts, and the flavor is pretty pronounced, but not over bearing at all. It is kinda mild, which I expect it to be right now, since it has so much VG, and it was just made yesterday. I will check it again in a week and a month to see how it progresses over time.

So far though, the 15 percent seems to be a good starting point and the banana flavor is coming through just fine. It is a banana candy flavor though, so keep that in mind when looking for a good banana flavor. To mix in other things, you may want to use a more natural tasting banana, which I have not found yet. However, this is a pretty darn good banana candy type flavoring.

Mixing with chocolate, that I made at the same time, it has a great chocolate / banana flavor to it, but it is a bit on the mild side. I will love to see how it goes in a week or two when this stuff steeps out better. I will hold off on making the review until this stuff steeps for at least a week, so I can get the formula correct for the blog post. If you like chocolate and banana, you will clearly like this.

Oh, for the recipe, I did add 2 percent of distilled water to help thin the VG. I think it should have been 4 or 5% though, but it could be just me. I think this stuff is pretty thick, and I know it wouldn’t wick for a carto or clearomizer. I am testing it using a dripping atomizer, so keep that in mind. You will need it a lot thinner to go into a carto or clearo. I generally make those batches at 50/50 and it works great in both.

Do I think you should try the banana flavor by flavor west? Yes. It is a pretty decent banana flavor, and it hasn’t even had time to steep yet. My review should hopefully get better when it does steep in more of the flavor. Stay tuned.

The first of my new flavors up for a test on it’s own, is the chocolate, just since it is sitting closer to the keyboard and the first one I saw was chocolate. This is a DIY flavor by flavor west. I mixed this up yesterday, and got impatient, so please excuse the lack of steeping time. I will revisit these posts next week, and next month about this time for another review of the flavor once it has had sufficient time to steep. This is the almost right out of the bottle flavor review of the chocolate, by flavor west, first.

Alone, and with a new wick, at 3.5 volts, in my corsair atomizer. I have turned the air holes to find the best place to taste this flavor. The chocolate flavor was mixed at the following: 30 pg/70 vg, with 15 percent flavor. The flavor is a very delicate milk chocolate. For those that have tasted something like the Dove milk chocolate, I think this comes real close. It is a light chocolate flavor, but it is very tasty if you are a fine milk chocolate lover. It is not very rich, but is sufficiently sweet, without any hint of being too sweet.

I turned up the voltage to 3.8 and the flavor definitely popped a bit better. It seems like a dry flavor though, and I thought with more vg than I am used to, it would not be so dry tasting. I turned it back down to 3.6 and it seems better. Still light and milky, but not a creamy flavor in it that I notice. It is definitely a milk chocolate. Like a Dove

I can’t wait for this to steep more and see how it turns out with more time. I know VG does not carry the flavor as well as PG, so it may take more steeping time than I am used to. Time will tell, but so far it is looking pretty good.

I will be reviewing each flavor on it’s own, but I started to test the blue berry, and with me going with a 30/70 vg/pg blend, it did not carry the flavor well with just one day to steep. So, I had to bump the flavor of the blueberry up to 20% from 15%, and thinned it to 40/60 with adding more PG to hopefully bring out more flavor sooner. Worked okay, but still needs to steep for some time. I will retest next week and see how things go with it on it’s own.

However…

My wife walked in, and saw that I mixed up the following flavors yesterday;

Blue Berry

Cheese Cake

Graham Cracker

Banana

Chocolate

Cherry Balsom ( I think this is supposed to be blossom, but they didn’t write it that way on the bottle)

So, with those flavors on her mind, and the blue berry in the atty already, she was like,,, make up some blueberry cheesecake. So, I put some cheese cake on the wick, along with a touch of the graham cracker for the crust, and added more of the blueberry, after I remixed it with 5 percent more flavor and 10 percent more pg.

At first I thought, there is no way this will work just winging it like this. Then I took a nice long puff, and WOW, was I wrong. It was a dead ringer. Just a lucky shot in the dark for sure. I will play hell trying to make up this recipe so I can duplicate it in large batches. You just watch and see…

Another mix I added into the atty was banana, blueberry and cheese cake. No crust. It was pretty decent. I think the crust (graham cracker) leaves an after taste in my mouth, but I am not sure about that, since I have not tested it on it’s own yet. The banana really stands out, and it is also made at 30 pg and 70 vg. I was just trying that blend to see if I get more vapor. I think I need to add a bit more distilled water to thin it more, as it is very thick this way with only 2% water added in. But very tasty. Again, I can’t wait to review it on it’s own.

Next test is the banana and chocolate. Please note, I haven’t tried the chocolate by itself, so this could fail… I like chocolate covered bananas, and love chocolate/banana malts, so I have my fingers crossed that this is a good chocolate. Here goes. About 50/50 on the flavors combined, again, right on the atty. Oh man,, the chocolate and banana mixed is pretty nice. Still has a touch of the blueberry in it though, so I need to change out the wick and get these separate reviews under way.

I just couldn’t wait to mention the blueberry cheesecake made up in the atty. It was such a lucky fluke that she walked in when she did and said to give it a try. I wouldn’t have tried that before testing each flavor on it’s own, first. Now to find the correct recipe so I can put it in it’s review for you.

Stay tuned and vape something good while your waiting. I am just trying to finish vaping this wick dry before I change the wick out. I can’t wait to test the chocolate banana mix on its own without blueberry cheesecake trying to work it’s way into the blend.

Another success was my flavor.. Orange dream bar, by Flavor west. I like the ice cream bars, so I figured I would give this flavor a try first. It is a pre made flavor mix, so I just add it to my eliquid base, put in my nicotine, and walla.. At 15%, it turns out pretty darn good. I set my first batch to 10mg of nicotine, then have gone down from there to 8, and 6mg.

I am working on slowly getting off of the nicotine entirely due to heart problems. Nicotine restricts your arteries, and well, mine are in bad shape. So, finding great tasting flavors to vape is more important to me, as I work on my over all health using e cigs instead of real cigs. I can feel a big improvement, but that is another story. Back to this review…

This flavor is amazing, to say the least. I stayed with the 15% flavoring that worked well for the banana nut bread, and I really like this a lot. The orange really stands out when you take in your vapor, then as you inhale, you feel the creamyness flowing down your throat, and you really taste the cream flavor too. Nice and smooth, and not real sweet.

The orange dream bar flavor has a good amount of throat hit, without being too much. It is kinda on the mild side I guess, since that creamy feeling hits at the same time, when you inhale. But I noticed that after vaping it for several hours, you do feel more of the throat hit. The vapor production is real good too, for a 50/50 blend of pg and vg. It isn’t a super thick cloud of vapor, but it is about the same as a regular cigaretts smoke cloud.

If you like orange dream bars, or orange ice cream bars, then you should really enjoy vaping this flavor. This could easilly be an all day vape for me, but I keep going back to my Marlboro flavor from the flea market. Hopefully one day, I will find that flavor and be able to make it myself and save the trip.

I found no reviews for any of the flavor west flavors, so I figured I would work my way through them all, and share the results with you. I hope this information helps someone out, as I searched the web for days, and found nothing from anyone about them. So if you enjoy DIY vaping, then keep reading my other posts as I work my way through my first 22 flavors from flavor west. I will put the mix info in each review so you know where to start. Your taste buds may vary, but I will at least give you a good starting point.

I am not sure what flavor I will try next. I am looking for more recipes on line, and hopefully I will find some that will work with the flavors I have.

I will keep you posted, but so far I have 2 flavors that came out great. I want to find about 10 to 20 more, then I will be set. Heck, I might even open a site to sell some of my USA made e-liquids, since all of my ingredients are from the USA. That e liquid from China just makes me feel uneasy, so I would prefer 100% USA made, eliquid with all USA made ingredients for myself. I know, some of the good flavors come from Italy, but I haven’t tried those yet.

Today I am breaking down and writing another tobacco flavor review for Flavor West’s, stag leaf tobacco flavor. I mixed this batch at 2% flavor back on 5-5-13, and it is now 6-30, so it has had almost 2 months to steep. That is plenty of time for any flavor. Most of these have not needed that long at all. I have just been busy doing other things, and just finally getting back to this. Oh, also, there is no nicotine in this test batch at all. After so many bad flavors, I decided to stop using nicotine in it until I find a good flavor to put it in.

As I opened the bottle to get it ready, it almost has a bit of a cinnamon smell in it. Not really, but kinda like that, along with perhaps some berry incense or something along that line. Not too appealing before I ever got a puff of it, but at least it isn’t knocking me against the wall like some flavors will. It is really a hard to explain smell… not horrid, but not what I would call good. On to the taste testing..

Ok, I have vaped this for about 30 minutes now, and I am not really impressed. It is not as bad as it could be, but at just 2% flavor, it has a very odd taste for something that is supposed to be a tobacco flavor. I come up with a mild tingle, like when you eat a red hot, with a potpourri flavor mixed in. Kinda an earthy floral taste going on in this one. Not like the incense it smells like, but more of one of those bags of potpourri that you pick up at the store to put in those candle heated bowls.

One thing I can say for sure, is that it is not horrid tasting. It is on the interesting side, but it would definitely not be my daily vape, or an all day vape for me. There is something about it that peaks my interest, but there is enough oddity to it, to put me off a bit.

After vaping on this stag leaf tobacco for a while now, I tend to think that they were going to that flavor you get when you have your first cigarette in a long time… that kinda tingly spiciness, that soon goes away with just another cigarette or two. Maybe this is it for some other brand of cigs, but not for the ones I have smoked in the past. It also leaves a bit of a grassy after taste in your mouth. Almost like an eggnog spicy flavored grass. Yet the flavor it leaves on your lips is more of the flowery potpourri flavor. It is real hard to explain this one. I mean, everyone’s taste buds are going to be a bit different, and this is not my cup of tea, but it may hit the mark for you. Or, it may be a good addition to another flavor.

I keep trying to think of how this would work for me. I think if put with a chocolate, and custard, this would be good for making a boston cream tobacco flavor.. That is about all I can come up with as I vape this flavor.

It is clear to see what they were going for, with that first smoke in a long time kind of flavor, but that after taste just looses the battle for me. I will be saving this one though, and trying it some day with a good chocolate and custard to see if I am right about the boston cream tobacco mix. Or perhaps with an eggnog flavor it will work well. It kinda has an eggnog hint going on in there somewhere. Maybe that strange flavor I am coming up with is more along the lines of a ginger flavor.. That makes more sense to me than cinnamon and eggnog… Then you have a bit of that flowery maybe citrus type flavor on the exhale. It is an odd one for me.

It is not at the top of my list, but it is a keeper for trying other mixed flavors to see if I can get something good to come out of it. However, it is not at the bottom of my list of flavors I have tried either. Due to the distinct different flavor sensations I am getting from this stag leaf tobacco, by flavor west, I would say it has my curiosity peaked, as to what I can do with it, because it is clearly not a stand alone flavor for me.

I hope this review of my 2% mix of Flavor West’s, stag leaf tobacco is helpful to someone out there trying to find out what flavors will work for them. I can neither recommend or condemn this one. Good luck with your DIY mixes!

Hello, and thank you for stopping by. I know there are not many reviews out there on Flavor west Flavors, so stay tuned as I run through about 27 of them for you. This time up is Coumarin Pipe Tobacco flavor for my smoke juice. If you enjoy a mildly sweet and mild tobacco flavors, you may really like this one a lot.

I started with this on 5-5-2013 at the following mixture: 2% flavor, 0 nicotine, and it is a 50/50 pg/vg blend e-juice. I let it steep for quite some time, as it is June 1rst, and I haven’t tested it before today. Many times, I will test vape my flavors the next day, but I have been busy and away from my flavor testing for a while.

To start, I fully cleaned my atty, and replaced the wick and coil, for a fresh clean flavor test. Soaked the wick good, then gave a small vape to see what it was all about. To my surprise, it was really nice. Slightly sweet, but not over powering like a candy flavor at all, a hint of vanilla is roaming around in there too. Just the slightest hint of tobacco in there – almost non at all. I think it would be nice to get just a bit more of that in it, so I may try a slightly stronger batch to see how that goes. However, as it is, it is a really nice mild vape with great vapor production. In a sense, I seem to feel like there is a bit of a hint of perhaps a light custard in there somewhere. Kinda creamy smooth feeling to it as I vape it. I have to say, I wish I would have put some nicotine in this batch, because I would like to vape this for a day to see if I change my feeling about it. Perhaps I will put some nic in it, but I have to be careful with a small 5 mil batch like this, because my nic is 100 mg, so it takes just a smidgin or it will be too strong. Luckily, that e-juice me up calculator will figure that out just fine.

I had my wife try this, and she thought it was pretty good too. Not enough for her to leave her banana nut bread addiction, but she at least said it was good.

Since I have never heard of this flavor before, I looked it up, on Google of course. It is a natural flavor that comes from a few types of grasses, clovers and bark. It is naturally sweet, and has a hint of vanilla taste to it. This is not toxic to humans, but very toxic to mice and rats. The flavor is used in cigarettes and pipe tobaccos, and is what lead to all the reports of rat poison in cigarettes. For more information, I suggest the Wikipedia page on it. In the amounts that would be in your vapor mix, it should be completely harmless to humans.

I think I will test this at 3 and 4% flavor to see how it goes. Hopefully I will remember to come back and edit this post as I do, but at 2% it is a real nice tasting vape juice. I am just looking for a bit more on the tobacco end of the flavor. If I don’t find it, then it would be pretty simple to mix a small amount of another good tobacco into it for more of that tobacco taste that it seems to be missing, but the more I vape it, the more I like it the way it is.

Definitely on the must try list of flavors for you. If your looking for a good DIY flavor, this is a real good one. Start around 2% and work up from there if you need it stronger.

Testing at 4%:

Ok, I have made the 4% flavor batch at 15% nic to test out. The batch has steeped for 10 days. The first thing I noticed was that adding more flavor has given it a bit of color. It is almost clear, but has a slight peachy pinkish hue. The flavor is a bit bolder, still quite nice also. It has that creamy taste to it, kinda like the orange dream bar. The vapor production seems to be about the same as the 2% batch.

Hey guys and gals, if your looking for a nice mild almost sweet tobacco flavor, you have got to give this one a go. It is real nice. I could see it being an all day vape for sure. If you like more of a throat hit, they make stuff you can add to your mix to increase that. I think I prefer the milder throat hit, because I vape a lot, and harsh flavors tend to give me a soar throat after a day of vaping it. This one should not be any issue for that at all – mild and creamy. Mm, we have a winner with this flavor.

Once I vape this dry, I will try one of the other 3 flavors I have mixed up.

I read posts on some electronic cigarette forums about a flavor called Jungle Juice. Nobody said what it tastes like, but they were saying they really liked it. So, I made sure to include that in my batch of flavors to check out. I mentioned this flavor in my last post, so I figured I better stop the tobacco flavor reviews and get this one posted, because I should have posted it weeks ago, but got side tracked.

The name Jungle Juice, by itself lends no hint of what this flavor will taste like. It leaves you guessing completely, and I could find no explanation anywhere on the net when I was looking, so I want to be sure to let you know what this odd named flavor is all about. To start with, if you look for recipes, you will find a few different variations. Even after seeing the recipes, you will have no clue how it will taste. I am not sure if they are leaving it a mystery on purpose, or what, but I am about to remove the vale on this hidden gem of a flavor.

I mixed this batch up on April 28th, 2013. I let it sit for 24 hours like most of my flavors before the first test. The flavor mix was at 15%, and I made the nic level at 12 milligrams per liter. The mixture is a deep golden color, with a bit of orange coloring to it and some brown. It is not what I would call a dark colored smoke juice, but it is far from clear. A bit darker than say, apple juice.

To test this stuff out, I took out the Jungle Juice bottle, cleaned my atty, then made and put in a new wick and coil so the flavor would be just this jungle juice flavor with nothing else mixed into it. I had no idea what I was about to get into here. Ok, so I put ten drops or so into the chamber, and got ready to take a drag. I could smell this e-liquid pretty well, as it is quite aromatic. It smells nice and fruity, I guess is the best way to describe it. So, I took a puff of this from my atty. A small one at first, as I have had some wicked bad flavors, and didn’t want a ton of a bad one at once. As soon as I took the drag, I started noticing this flavor that I have tasted before. It is very fruity, and a touch of sweetness to it as well, but not too sweet. The best way to describe it, is to pop a piece of juicy fruit gum into your mouth and chew it. So similar it is not funny, but there is a twist…

Once I took a bigger puff, the other part hit me. (the twist I mentioned) Just a hint of cooling menthol. No, I am no fan of anything menthol, and didn’t notice it on the first hit, because it was a small hit, and I don’t think I inhaled it, as I was just pulling the vapor into my mouth to try out the flavor. However, once I took that next big vape, I noticed it as I inhaled it deeply. It did catch me off guard, but it was not bad at all. I mean I could tell it was there, but it was a long ways from being over powering. I liked the flavor a lot, and my wife did too. One thing I noticed, was the more I vaped it, the less I noticed the menthol. It is so mild, I wouldn’t put it in the same category as a menthol flavor. It is more of a cooling icy flavor.

This is all being said from someone that generally hates anything menthol. This is a really great flavor to ad to your mix of flavors. I can see why several I read on the forums said they made this their all day vape. It is really that good. A must try. If your into flavors that produce good vapor, you will enjoy this also, as it creates a great amount of vapor. It seems to be great at about 3.8 to 4.0 volts on my ego twist battery.

Remember, you may like your flavors milder or stronger than I made mine. Just use this as a starting point, and blend to your own tastes, and have a great tasting flavor to vape as often as you wish, for a fraction of the cost of store bought brands.

I mixed up a batch of the tidewater tobacco by Flavor West, on 5-5-2013. Today I am sampling it. The flavor mix is at 2%, as everything stronger would gag almost anyone, on the other tobacco flavors I have tested out.

Right off the bat, first few hits are showing promising signs of a decent tobacco flavor, or possibly one… with one major exception. The throat hit is amazingly strong, harsh, or what ever you would call it. Almost like a dry hit kind of strong. I am going to take a few minutes, get a drink and come back to it. I know the wick is completely soaked, so it is not a dry hit, but it seems a lot like it.

Ok, I am back now. It is real strong. A slight grassy taste to it, but absolutely none of the perfume crap that I have been tasting in their other tobacco flavors. It is much better in that respect. Well, only a very slight hint of that talc powdery feel to it on my inner mouth, and a super slight hint of that perfume to it, but so slight, you hardly notice it until you keep looking for it.

It is starting to look like the issue may be my new wick. I really soaked it good now, and the harshness seems to be gone. The vapor production is pretty darn good. Maybe the highest for any of the tobacco flavors I have tried so far, and it is on the lowest power setting of my ego twist battery.

Now that the harshness is gone, and I got a drink to clear my throat of the burning… The grassy flavor seems very mild, and I am starting to think this may be one of the best tobacco flavors from Flavor west. I bought them all, and only have 3 more to test out after this one. This may just be my new base flavor for things like bluebacco, and others. At least until I find one better – perhaps a different brand will bring better vaping in the future, but only time will tell.

I am going to vape on this for a few hours and see if it looses it’s luster. At only 2% flavor mix, I am surprised it isn’t all washed out, but it is actually nice. I even had my wife take a few hits to get her opinion on it, and she said it was pretty darn good. She liked it a lot.

Again, this is a 50/50 mix of PG and VG, and I did not put any nicotine in these test batches. Now that the wicking issue seems to be fixed, the throat hit is very smooth and creamy. Why did I say creamy? Because it seems to have a very slight cream flavor going in. The grassy flavor seems to be all but gone, and I am not noticing any bad after taste coming in to my mouth at all, after about 20 minutes of vaping this.

It does seem to have a mild tobacco flavor to it. I kinda expected a bit more of that, but over all, this is pretty good tasting. I will add one percent of flavor to see if it gets any better or if it takes it the other direction, but at 2%, it is pretty decent, and could be an all day vape as it is mild and not at all over powering, and is not leaving any kind of a lingering flavor in my mouth. I do notice though, that with this flavor, if it even starts to run low on liquid, it produces that super harsh hit, quicker than any of the other flavors I have tried to date.

It is a definite one for you to try out if you are DIY vape juice mixing to find better and cheaper ways to vape.

Once again, it is more of a perfume flavor than anything else. I taste no honey, no wood, and clearly no tobacco. What is up with their flavor testers???

It is a lighter flavor of tobacco regular. Good vapor production, more of that stupid perfume flavor.

This is going to be a super short review, because I am getting upset at all these horrid flavors I bought from Flavor West. I still have several more tobacco flavors to test out. I hope I can stomach them. I am only going to test one more today, then giving my taste buds the rest of the day off. Unfortunately, they deserve a break.

Oh, in case I didn’t say it clear enough.. Honeywood tobacco flavor, from flavor west at 2%